scholarly journals Everettian Quantum Mechanics and the Metaphysics of Modality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Harding
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Metaphysics Of Modality

Emergent Chance

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-144
Author(s):  
Alastair Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Principal Principle ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Objective Chance ◽  
The Right ◽  
Bridge Principles ◽  
Metaphysics Of Modality

This chapter offers a theory of objective chance in the Everettian context, often seen as the main challenge facing EQM. By supplementing diverging EQM with quantum modal realist bridge principles connecting the physics of quantum mechanics with the metaphysics of modality, we obtain a package deal: Indexicalism. Indexicalist objective chance is an essentially self-locating phenomenon: chances are chances of self-location within the multiverse. I provide three arguments for Indexicalism: it establishes the right qualitative connections between chance and possibility, it establishes the right quantitative connection between chance and prediction, and it establishes the right epistemological story about how quantum mechanics is confirmed by empirical evidence. The resulting theory of chance is naturalistic and reductive; fundamental reality is deterministic, but chance arises at the non-fundamental level of Everett-worldbound perspectives. The theory provides unique resources for motivating an Everettian version of Lewis’s Principal Principle, helping to clarify at last the persistently mysterious connection between chance and rational credence.

Quantum Mechanics

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gennaro Auletta ◽  
Mauro Fortunato ◽  
Giorgio Parisi
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics

Quantum Mechanics for Nanostructures

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Mitin ◽  
Dmitry I. Sementsov ◽  
Nizami Z. Vagidov
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics

The Logic of Quantum Mechanics

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico G. Beltrametti ◽  
Gianni Cassinelli ◽  
Peter A. Carruthers
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics
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